Tsunami clue to ‘Atlantis’ found
A geologist has discovered that a submerged island could be the source of the Atlantis myth when it was hit by a large earthquake and tsunami 12,000 years ago.
A geologist has discovered that a submerged island could be the source of the Atlantis myth when it was hit by a large earthquake and tsunami 12,000 years ago.
A team of experts believes it could be close to unravelling the millennia-old myth of the Lost City of Atlantis and is launching an expedition to the seas west of Gibraltar to test its theory.
Jacques Collina-Girard, from the University of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence, has evidence that Atlantis was sited on an island close to the Strait of Gibraltar and which vanished beneath the waves about 11,000 years ago.
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